Treyarch still has access to game film, that's not the problem. The problem is that it's a very time-intensive process to identify the potential booster/hacker and then actually review the gameplay to make sure the scoring discrepancies are something the player did vs. a coding or gameplay issue. Fixing a bug or glitch in the game requires time, too, but generally for only a couple of people who are full-time staff anyway...when it comes to sitting there and watching hours upon hours of game footage to identify a booster vs. someone who just happened to be on/up against a really bad team is probably something you don't want to tie up a trained software developer with, thus making it necessary to hire & pay more staffers.

Me personally, I don't think I've ever run into a booster or hacker in my own lobby, and it just doesn't really matter to me if my leaderboard rank is a hundred or more spots lower than it "should" be. I imagine that's true for the majority of CoD players; maybe not the majority of posters here, but far more people play the game than bother with these forums.

It's actually pretty easy if you try, I used to do GB/MLGs so I tend to play differently then most CoD players, if I actually play and try without stopping I could easily prestige in a day, I've done it in W@W ,MW2,MW3, and Black Ops

Go for weapon challenges as well.

Also not everyone at the top of the leaderboards boosted,glitched, or hacked granted that will ALWAYS happen because they find new ways so its just something to deal with until they get banned and reset to let legit players get to the top.

there are soooo many boosters in this game and nobody gets punished. I reported like 30 guys since release, wrote down the name of the biggest boosters and checked their stats regularly. They're boosting every day like it's no one's business but they've never been reset or anything. WTF!?!?

I mean I don't believe that there can't be a system that automatically identifies boosters. Like when 2 guys are boosting with tac inserts and one guy kills the other one like 20 times a minute.

This is ruining parts of the game. Titles, emblems, camos, leaderboards etc. aren't worth anything. On top of that I have to back out of every 3rd mercenary game because there are boosters. Ridiculous. Even more ridiculous that Treyarch isn't doing anything about it. There should be much more harsh penalties for boosters, cheaters, hackers. Console bans shouldn't be out of question for boosting, even if they get caught for the first time. Those idiots will never learn that lesson if they escape unscathed every time.

So take what you see and report, multiply that by the other legit players who take the time to report whatthey see.

Now imagine the size of that list and assign someone to review game films for each report and asses bans, resets etc.

How long will it take to go through them all?

Answer: Forever. They keep coming in!

In all honesty, if you are really making a list and checking it twice, you are griefing yourself over something you have little to no control over other than how much emotional equity you invest with an almost gaurantee of a zero return. Report in game, move on with your game.

I disagree about badges and such, legit players know they earned them just like boosters know they did not and the only person my stats really matter to is me.

A lot of the boosting seems blatantly obviously to me. Most of them involve the same 2 guys with a tactical insertion.

Lots of times you can tell these people are using multiple accounts. There is one guy who is doing the killing, and the one guy sacrificing himself via tactical insertion and they have variations on the exact same name.